''Faunis eumeus'', the large faun,"''Faunis'' Hübner,

at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly">819]"">"''Faunis'' Hübner, [1819]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in South Asia">South South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...

and South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterfly family. The ''assama'' subspecies of the large faun is now considered to be a separate species, ''Faunis assama'' ( John O. Westwood, Westwood, 1858).

Distribution

The large faun ranges from

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

to the

Shan States The Shan States were a collection of minor Shan people, Shan kingdoms called ''mueang, möng'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' (''sawbwa''). In British rule in Burma, British Burma, they were analogous to the princely states of Britis ...

and

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

Description

Upperside of males and females: forewing maroon, with a very broad, oblique, preapical, somewhat diffuse, bright ochraceous band extending from costa to termen and along latter almost to the tornus; this band broader in the female than in the male. Hindwing brown, shading to dark maroon anteriorly. Underside maroon brown; apex of forewing broadly paler, dorsal margin of same dull brown; subbasal, discal and postdiscal dark, sinuous, continuous lines crossing both wings; between the latter two a series of prominent round white spots, five or six on the forewing (straight in the male, slightly incurved in the female), six or seven on the hindwing, arched in both sexes. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown. (under ''Clerome eumeus'').

Status

The subspecies ''incerta'' from the Shan States is reported by

William Harry Evans Brigadier William Harry Evans (born 22 July 1876 in Shillong – died 13 November 1956, Church Whitfield ) was a lepidopterist and British Army officer who served in India. He documented the butterfly fauna of India, Burma and Ceylon in a se ...

as very rare.

Cited references

References

* * eueus Fauna of Hong Kong Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Dru Drury Butterflies described in 1773 {{Morphinae-stub